Isaac Lamb claimed he’d been born in Greenwich, Kent about 1808; he married
Elizabeth Earley in Hartley Wintney, Hants in 1830, and he was buried in Botleys
and Lyne, Surrey (in the Chertsey Registration District) in 1872, aged 65.
He and Elizabeth christened the following children: Isaac junior in Stratfield
Saye, Hants in 1830, who died in 1923 “aged 105”; George in Fawley, Hants in
1832; Henry in Sunbury, Mdx in 1835; Mary Ann in Whiteparish, Wilts in 1837;
Matthias in Landford, Wilts in 1840; Jane Etty in Crondall, Hants in 1842; James
in Farnham, Surrey in 1845; William in Longcross, Surrey in 1849; and Emma in
Farnham in 1851. Isaac and his family were seen mainly in Hampshire until the
mid-1860s, when for about twenty years they showed a preference for the Chertsey
area in Surrey, but then, partly because of marriages into South Coast families,
they were again seen mainly in Hampshire. Of their children Isaac junior,
George, Matthias and James were reasonably prolific, Henry perhaps and Jane less
so, and I know nothing about any offspring of the other three.
Isaac Lamb junior married Margaret Rawlings, daughter of William, in Hale,
Surrey in 1852, and had the following children: his own Isaac, born in Middlesex
about 1853; John born in Whiteparish about 1855; George and William christened
in Farnham in 1857 and 1860, with James christened between them in Virginia
Water, Surrey in 1859; Cain, born in Hants about 1862; twins Abel and Seth
christened in Eversley, Hants in1864, Emily in Addlestone, Surrey in 1866;
Esther in Rotherwick, Hants in 1868; and Elizabeth, Albert, Alice and Benjamin
allegedly born in Hartley Wintney between about 1870 and 1877.
Of Isaac junior’s children only George seems to have had much of a family: he
married an Ellen born in Hartley Row, Hants, and had, seemingly born there
between about 1884 and 1900, an Alice, Rachel, Frederick George, Annie, and
William James, plus an Albert John christened in Heckfield, Hants in 1889, and
an Arthur and Isaac christened in Dogmersfield, Hants in 1890 and1891
respectively. Cain married an Eliza and had an Alice. Abel married Emma Digweed,
and had a Nellie, Fanny Louisa and Annie about 1891-98. Esther, married a Samuel
Stapps in the Eton, Bucks area in 1888, and seems to have had only one child, a
Doris born about 1902. Isaac was long married to a widow, Lydia Croxford
(formalizing their union in 1909), but didn’t add to the children she’d had by
her first husband. Alice married Arthur Gower in 1897, and Seth married
Charlotte Muffett in 1914, but neither appears to have had children.
George Lamb, the first Isaac’s second son, married first an Irish girl, Bridget
Cullen, in Chertsey’s Roman Catholic Chapel in 1868. They had a Mary Ann and an
Edward born about 1869 and 1871, a George junior born in 1873, an Isaac born
about 1875, and a Bridget christened in Addlestone in 1878. Bridget senior was
buried in Chobham Trinity, Surrey in 1881, and in Chobham St Lawrence in 1884
George married Mary Ann Jeffs (recorded as Olive), daughter of Matthew and
Elizabeth. They had an Emily, born in Chobham about 1884, and then an Elizabeth,
Alice and Rose christened in Bransgore, West Hampshire 1886- 93.
Of George’s children George junior married first Mary Ann Sherwood/Doe in
Boldre, West Hantsin 1891, who christened, also in 1891, an Alice in Boldre and
an Albert in Binsted (who married Emily Richenda Gregory in 1912); an Amy in
Thorney Hill, Hants in 1893, who married Joseph Loveridge; and an unnamed child
in Addlestone (returning to the Chertsey area) in 1895. In 1901 Mary Ann died,
and in 1905 in West Hampshire George married his second wife, Susan Pearce
daughter of William. He and Susan had a shortlived Bridget, a George and an
Edward, all christened in Bransgore in 1906-09, and several more children in the
ensuing years. George junior’s brother, Isaac, married his cousin, Elizabeth
Jeffs, in Boldre in 1895, a daughter of Matthew and Phoebe, and they had
1895-1913 a George, Edward, Adam and Alice, all christened in Bransgore, plus a
Maria, Emily, Isaac, Mary/Nancy and Nellie. George junior’s half-sister, Alice,
had an Albert about 1909 by an unknown husband.
Henry Lamb, the first Isaac’s third son, seems to have married a Sarah, and had
a Mary christened in Farnham in 1858 (tinman).
Matthias (sometimes Matthew) Lamb, the first Isaac’s fourth son, married a Jane,
and had a Bertie, Caroline and Elizabeth, born in the Chertsey area between
about 1873 and 1887. He might be thought the father of the Ben Lamb christened
in Addlestone in 1866 son of Jane, single woman, the week before Matthias’ older
brother, Isaac, christened a child there. But the fact Ben’s father wasn’t named
on either his birth- or his marriage-certificate, surely indicates Ben’s mother
was Matthias’ sister, Jane Etty.
Jane (Etty) Lamb by an unknown partner or partners had, besides Ben christened
in Addlestone in 1866, Emily Lamb christened there in 1869, Britannia Lamb
christened in Farnham in 1874 (daughter of a single woman of Chertsey), who died
in the Chertsey area in 1894 aged 19, and Elizabeth Lamb christened in
Addlestone in 1887 (daughter of a single woman in Chertsey Workhouse). Jane Lamb
was buried in Chertsey in 1889 aged 45;Ben in 1890 married Frances Mary Ward in
Botleys and Lyne, christening a number of children there and in Chertsey, and
Emily had about four children by Eli White and at least seven by Alfred Bowers.
Finally James Lamb, the first Isaac’s fifth son, belatedly married Mary Ann
Lynch in Chertsey in 1887. They had the following children: Ellen born about
1870, who married Henry Green; Henry christened in E Worldham, Hants in 1872,
who belatedly married in 1912 Britannia White daughter of Thomas; Job John
christened in Addlestone in 1876, who married in 1895 Selina Jeff daughter of
Matthew and Phoebe; Rosina, James Walter and Mary Ann Caroline christened in
Binsted, Hants in 1878, 1883 and 1885;and Bridget, Elizabeth and George Isaac
birth-registered in the Chertsey RD in 1881, 1887 and 1890.
Of James’ children Ellen had a Henry Green junior about 1889; Henry had a
Georgina born about 1899, and a Rosie born about 1907; Job had between about
1894 and 1909 a James, Alice, Henry, Job junior, Emily, Rosie and William; and
Elizabeth had a Florence, christened in Colebury, Hants in 1905 daughter of
Betsy, traveller, two years before Elizabeth’s brother, Job, christened Job
junior there.
As always I’ll be happy to hear from family specialists who can correct and
amplify what I’ve found as a generalist, moving from one family to another.